You Can’t Escape Partnerships

But you can become better at them.

We are always in the state of partnering — the ones we have chosen, the ones that chose us, and the ones we never notice.

Partnership is how the world runs.

We are constantly in partnership with everything, from ourselves to the chairs we sit on.

It’s inescapable. Life exists in partnerships. As we become more conscious, we recognize our ongoing relationship with everything.

We can enhance our human relationships if we start from the perspective that the Infinite Mind is always in partnership with all its ideas, which is everything that exists.

In nature, everything reflects the principle of this oneness as a partnership.

For example, every flower partners with a multitude of ideas like air, sun, and water, which assist it in flourishing. If we try to name all the partners a flower has, we find that the list is endless.

When we reverse that list, we discover their equality and inseparability.

That’s just flowers. If you look at anything with awareness, the partnership between Mind and Its ideas becomes crystal clear.

Our worldview training makes us think we don’t have to choose to partner, that we are lonely without partners, or that we don’t like the partners we have.

Yet, we are always in partnership with everything in life.

We are always present in the ultimate partnership, as the entire intelligence universe cares for us as we care for it.

There is no escaping partnership, but believing that we are separate humans, we can certainly try to, which results in the experience of imperfect partnerships.

But that is just a misperception.

We believe we have a choice about partnerships, and we do, but not the one we think.

We have a choice to hide from the awareness of partnership. We have a choice about being excellent partners or not.

But that doesn’t change the fact that each of us is always in various partnerships at every moment.

We partner with the person checking us out at the store, with the mailman, with our garden, with our home, with our body, with the chair we sit on, with our business or job, with our food, with our cars, with our family, and with the children of the world.

We are always in partnership.

We each have a partnership with the earth, with our purpose, and with our personal being.

We care for these ideas, and they care for us. And if we ignore this, our partnerships suffer.

It is important to be consistently aware that the well-being of our partners is essential for our own well-being.

Beginning every partnership choice and participation with the premise of equality and inseparability, each partnership in our lives reflects, to an increasing degree, an accurate representation of the divine Principle of Love loving itself.

After a couple danced together beautifully on a dance show, one judge said to the man, “You are so generous to your partners. You give them everything. You are so present for them, and they make you better, and that is what you need for a great partnership.”

This is how each of us needs to dance with life.

Good partnering is the art of equal giving and receiving. It begins with our partnership with ourselves, which makes us better partners in every other aspect of life.

I love watching the birds in our yard as they partner together.

They are constantly caring for each other. While one eats, the other keeps watch. They call to each other constantly throughout the day—one calls, and the other answers, much like the thumbs-up sign of the scuba diver.

They demonstrate a quality of communication that is the foundation of good partnerships.

The dynamics of partnership enrich each participant because of the requirement to be aware and present for each other.

It provides a sense of security, safety, and freedom, knowing that another has our welfare in mind as we have theirs.

Many of us hesitate to fully participate in partnerships because we have been in partnerships that have not worked out.

However, relationships are about partnering, and no matter how much we try to escape them, they are the foundation of life.

Acting from the awareness that Principle and Its idea is one, our personal partnerships grow and flourish.

Accepting that we are the idea of the Principle of Love, we will wisely choose partnerships based on equality and care.

All partnerships are born from the essence of the ultimate partnership, the one between the divine, God, Principle, Mind and Its idea—each one of us as one, never separate, never alone, always and forever one as Love loving itself.

Knowing this, we can rejoice in the quality of the ultimate partnership present in, and as, our lives and experience for ourselves the consistent availability of perfect partnerships.

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